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TIMELINE OF EVENTS

Chronicled events from The Vampire Chronicles (Volume I - Volume VI) and the New Tales of the Vampires series.

From The Vampire Companion, by Katherine Ramsland.
New additions by RB (site creator).

Around 4000 B.C.

  • Akasha brings the twins to her court; Khayman rapes them, and Mekare then asks the spirit Amel to avenge them.
  • Amel fuses with Akasha and makes her a vampire; she in turn makes Enkil a vampire.
  • Maharet has a mortal daughter, Miriam, who starts the Great Family; Khayman takes Maharet and Mekare back to Egypt.
  • Akasha makes Khayman a vampire.
  • Khayman makes Mekare a vampire, who makes Maharet a vampire.
  • Maharet and Mekare are separated and sealed into coffins; both escape but fail to find each other.

Around 3000 B.C.

  • Akasha and Enkil go into their trance.


Around 1000 B.C.

  • Maharet makes Eric a vampire.


After 49 B.C.

  • The Elder places Akasha and Enkil in the sun, causing vampires everywhere to be burned or destroyed.
  • Marius' mortal birth (around 30 B.C.).
  • Lydia's (Pandora's) mortal birth (around 15 B.C.).
  • The Druid's vampire makes Marius a vampire (around 10 A.D.).
  • Mael becomes a vampire.
  • Marius takes Akasha and Enkil out of Egypt to Antioch.
  • Marius makes thirty-five-year-old Pandora a vampire (around 20 A.D.).
  • Pandora makes Flavius a vampire (around 30 A.D.).
  • Maharet puts a dagger in Akasha's heart to establish the truth of the legend that Akasha must exist for all other vampires to exist.

1200s

  • Ursula becomes a vampire.

1300s

  • Santino becomes a vampire.

1400s

  • Marius makes Armand a vampire when Armand is seventeen years old.
  • Magnus becomes a vampire.

1434

  • Mortal birth of Vittorio de Raniari.

1450

  • Ursula makes sixteen-year-old Vittorio a vampire.

1760

  • Mortal birth of Lestat de Lioncourt.

1766

  • Mortal birth of Louis de Pointe du Lac.

1779

  • Lestat goes with Nicholas to Paris, to become an actor.

1780

  • Magnus makes twenty-year-old Lestat a vampire, then goes into the fire.
  • Lestat makes Gabrielle a vampire.
  • Lestat encounters Armand's coven.
  • Lestat makes Nicholas a vampire.
  • Lestat gives Renaud's theatre to four vampires who, with Nicholas, turn it into the Théâtre des Vampires.
  • Lestat and Gabrielle begin their journey on the Devil's Road; Lestat writes his first of many messages to Marius.

1789

  • Nicholas goes into the fire.
  • Lestat's mortal family is killed during the French Revolution.
  • Gabrielle leaves Lestat to go into the jungles.
  • Lestat goes underground.
  • Marius comes to Lestat and takes him to the island where Akasha and Enkil sit as statues. Lestat awakens Akasha, but Marius then sends Lestat away.
  • Lestat arrives in New Orleans.
  • Claudia's mortal birth.

1791

  • Lestat makes twenty-five-year-old Louis a vampire.

1794

  • Slaves drive Lestat and Louis from Pointe du Lac.
  • Lestat makes five-year-old Claudia a vampire.

1795

  • The three then settle into the town house in New Orleans.

1862

  • Claudia attacks Lestat and throws his remains into the swamp; when Lestat survives and returns, Louis burns down the town house and he and Claudia flee.
  • Claudia and Louis travel by ship to Eastern Europe, to seek out Old World vampires.
  • Claudia and Louis go to Paris.
  • Louis meets Armand and his coven at the Théâtre des Vampires.
  • Louis makes Madeleine a vampire.
  • Armand's coven destroys Claudia and Madeleine.
  • Louis retaliates by burning down the Théâtre des Vampires.

After 1862

  • Louis travels with Armand, then returns to New Orleans, where he claims to have seen Lestat again.
  • Armand leaves Louis.

1917

  • David Talbot's mortal birth.

1929

  • Lestat goes underground in New Orleans.
  • Armand takes over New Orleans as his own territory.

1950

  • Jesse's mortal birth.

1955

  • Daniel's mortal birth (or possibly two years earlier).

1975

  • Louis tells his story to the reporter in San Francisco.

1976

  • The publication of Interview with the Vampire.

1984

  • Lestat rises from his coma, after hearing the music of Satan's Night Out; upon reading Interview with the Vampire, he decides to become a rock star.

1985

  • The publication of The Vampire Lestat.
  • Killer makes fourteen-year-old Baby Jenks a vampire; she is destroyed later that same year.
  • Jesse, as a member of the Talamasca, investigates the New Orleans town house and documents the vampire activities there.
  • Lestat's rock concert is scheduled on Halloween in San Francisco; other vampires plot to annihilate him.
  • Louis reunites with Lestat.
  • Armand makes thirty-year-old Daniel a vampire. (He may have been thirty-two.)
  • Akasha awakens from her trance, destroys Enkil, buries Marius in ice, and begins her worldwide slaughter of vampires.
  • Mekare sends dreams to vampires worldwide about the twins and their story.
  • Khayman remembers who he is after a long period of amnesia, and follows Akasha to San Francisco, where he attends Lestat's concert.
  • Pandora and Santino rescue Marius and accompany him to Sonoma.
  • Vampires gather at Lestat's rock concert; Akasha kills most of them.
  • Gabrielle reunites with Lestat.
  • Akasha abducts Lestat and with him begins her slaughter of mortal men.
  • Maharet makes thirty-five-year-old Jesse a vampire.
  • The vampires who survive Akasha's destruction gather at Sonoma.
  • Marius reunites with Armand.
  • Akasha and Lestat arrive at Sonoma.
  • Mekare destroys Akasha and becomes the new Queen of the Damned.
  • Lestat records the aforementioned events.
  • Lestat meets David Talbot.

1988

  • The publication of The Queen of the Damned.

1991

  • Lestat tries to end his existence.
  • Lestat meets Raglan James and switches bodies to become mortal again; James absconds with Lestat's vampire body, but Lestat retrieves it and kills James.
  • Lestat makes David Talbot a vampire. David is seventy-four, but currently has the body of a twenty-six-year-old man.
  • Louis and David agree to live with Lestat in the New Orleans town house.

1992

  • The publication of The Tale of the Body Thief.

1992-1993

  • Louis, David, and Lestat part ways.
  • Lestat returns to Rio and senses his stalker.
  • Lestat sees Roger and starts to stalk him.

1994

  • Lestat discusses his stalker with David.
  • Lestat kills Roger, then speaks with Roger's ghost; he meets Roger's daughter, Dora.
  • Lestat's stalker introduces himself as Memnoch the Devil, and asks for Lestat's help.
  • Lestat accompanies Memnoch to Heaven and Hell. He meets God, hears the story of creation, and sees Christ's passion and the making of Veronica's veil. He visits Hell but decides against helping Memnoch. In leaving Hell, he loses his left eye to Memnoch.
  • Lestat gives Veronica's veil to Dora; Dora uses it to fan the flames of Christianity.
  • Armand destroys himself in the sun to affirm the veil's authenticity; Mael similarly destroys himself.
  • Dora gives St. Elizabeth's to Lestat.
  • Maharet returns Lestat's eye and chains him to restrain him. She gives him a note from Memnoch, which thanks him for aiding him.
  • Lestat dictates his experience with the Devil to David.
  • Interview with the Vampire is made into a movie starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and Kirsten Dunst.

1995

  • The publication of Memnoch the Devil.

After 1995

  • Armand, having survived the sun, finds a new existence in Sybelle and Benji. He tells his story to David Talbot.
  • Immortals gather to be by Lestat's side, following his journey with Memnoch.
  • Marius makes Sybelle and Benji vampires.
  • Lestat awakens to listen to Sybelle's music.

1998

  • The publication of Pandora and The Vampire Armand.

1999

  • The publication of Vittorio, The Vampire.

2000

  • The publication of Merrick.

2001

  • The publication of Blood and Gold.

2002

  • The Queen of the Damned is made into a movie starring Stuart Townsend, Aaliyah, and Vincent Perez.
  • The publication of Blackwood Farm.

Excerpt from The Vampire Companion © 1995 Katherine M. Ramsland.